I believe there are many equivalent films that come out every now and then. I couldn’t make the list that I wanted but here is a tiny one
Law of Tehran
La Isla Minima
Night crawler
El Reino
Memories of Murder
Black Swan
Drive
Incendies
Films by:
Alex Garland
Jordan Peele
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Half of them have only become famous after or way after that movie. Meanwhile every single one of Fincher’s films is anticipated to be the next Seven. It’s the same with Ridley Scott.
Haven´t seen the first two (put Law of Tehran on my watchlist, I have recently seen Leila´s Brothers from the same director, blew me away to be honest, though I am pre-inclined to like it since the family dynamics resembled a lot of the family of my mother), don´t know anything about the second director.
The other ones received their fair due to be honest, hence my point that I made above. Roustayi is regarded as THE next Iranian filmmaker, Nightcrawler topped many 2010s list, similarly Sorogoyen´s movies are always well received, latest movie Beasts is also among the most praised of this year, Bong Joon-Ho is brilliant and one of the hottest directors at the moment, Aronofsky one of my favorites (though not really a thriller guy), Drive and Refn I don´t like, Villeneuve is also well known after Sicario and Arrival (Incendies was great up to the end, the twist took me out of it).
Garland I agree, Peele and Donnersmarck have done one great movie each, and both seemed pretty circumstantial to me, the latter already benefits from a very emotional setting and also from 10 years of production, the former from an adaptation of a known setup with a racial twist.
Except Bong, Aronofsky and maybe Villeneuve none have the body of work Fincher has to be honest, even if he has lows.
And I disagree, even with cult classics like Fight Club and Seven, Fincher movies do not have that standing anymore in the 2010s. For Mank he was nominated for Director Oscar only because the academy likes movies about themselves and filmmaking, most of the time at least... Babylon...
I wholeheartedly agree regarding Ridley Scott though

, for me actually one of the most overrated directors of all time.